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Article: North staffordshire memory lane quiz
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- Sentinel, The (Stoke-on-Trent UK)
- Article date:
- October 4, 2008
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Test your knowledge of North Staffordshire history with John
Abberley.
1. Who was appointed secretary of a company in Leek in 1933,
when it had a staff of 18, and retired in 1985, when it had 1,800
employees?
2. What was the historical significance of the public hanging of
a man named William Collier at Stafford Jail on July 5, 1866?
3. In what context were the Scottish place-names Dunrobin,
Golspie and Brora once familiar in North Staffordshire?
4. Francis Elliott Kitchener, a cousin of Lord Kitchener of
Khartoum, became the first headmaster of which all-boys school in
North Staffordshire in 1876?
5. Which film opened at a Potteries cinema on Boxing Day in 1965
and was screened daily ...